I'm not hoping to see that day but I know that my cinema will reach Filipinos. I know that they will embrace it one day. It will happen. I'm very sure of that. I still have faith in cinema. I still believe it can affect change.
Lav DiazI'm very fatalistic about life. Whatever happens, happens. The imperative for me is that I do my contribution for my people, for my culture. I still want to make films for them. I still want to make films that confront our struggles.
Lav DiazCinema is the greatest mirror of humanity's struggle. You see this alternative world, but you're part of it. Everybody is part of it. This is our world.
Lav DiazEven if I made pornography, the trauma would show, though. It will always be there because it's my veritรฉ. It's my kind of narrative, it's my kind of storytelling. It's not style; it's just there.
Lav Diaz